By Hardcastle                                         H.B. No. 1331
         76R5596 CMR-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to disqualification for the receipt of unemployment
 1-3     compensation benefits based on the receipt of certain payments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 207.049.  RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION.  An individual is
 1-8     disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the
 1-9     individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form
1-10     of:
1-11                 (1)  wages in lieu of notice;  [or]
1-12                 (2)  severance pay; or
1-13                 (3)  compensation under a state worker's compensation
1-14     law or a similar law of the United States for:
1-15                       (A)  temporary partial disability;
1-16                       (B)  temporary total disability; or
1-17                       (C)  total and permanent disability.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19     applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-20     is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-21     A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-22     the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-23     in effect for that purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.